A New Year lies ahead of us. What can we wish for in this 2021 which has just begun? That we can sense the presence of God at our side in every moment: in moments of joy and suffering, in health and ill-health.
It is precisely this certainty that is our peace!
Let us commit ourselves to overcoming the selfishness within us; the desire to think only of ourselves. Let us overcome the barriers of suspicion and fear; let us always fight for a better world.
Through peace we bear in our hearts the hope of overcoming together the battle against the virus which is causing suffering to millions throughout the world.
May Saint Anthony accompany us and bless us!
A happy New Year from the friars of the Basilica and of the “Messenger of Saint Anthony”
Fr. Giancarlo Zamengo
General Director of the Messenger